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BRC presents: Border Hopping (A Warm Up Race)

Welcome to the second of the Buckyball Racing Club's Warm Up Races, a series of short races planned to be simple and quick, and give you a good taster of Buckyball-style racing!

The Race

This is a fairly simple jaunt, hopping across the borders between the Empire and Federation, and between the territory of four Powers...

Start line is at Gaiman Dock in Beta Pictoris.

Then call at the following four starports, in any order:

Bresnik Port in 82 Eridani

Mikulin Hub in Kamchaa

Michalitsianos Hub in Kapod

Tsunenaga Port in LHS 200

Finish line is back at Gaiman Dock in Beta Pictoris.

Expected circuit time is 20-30 minutes.

To aid in route plotting, here's a list of the stations, the distance of each from its respective star, and the distances between the systems in light years.

Entry Options

Entries can be made in any ship (all five waypoints are full size starports), and at any time. The race closes at 23:59 GMT on 20 September 3301; you must cross the finish line no later than 23:59:59 on 20 September for your entry to count.

For this race, there are three classes of entry available:

Open Play (for races conducted entirely in Open Play in the main universe)

Solo / Private Group (for those running in Solo or in a private group)

Open Beta-verse (Special, for this race only: option for those making the run in the beta universe; includes Xbox players)

How to Enter

Get to Gaiman Dock in the system of Beta Pictoris. Make repairs, fill with fuel, and ensure your ship is outfitted exactly how you want it for the race.

Open the Outfitting screen and capture a screenshot (F10) of your ship. Be sure to capture Power Plant, Thrusters, Frame Shift Drive and Power Distributor statistics as well as your ship's mass.

This race is a return to the more traditional Buckyball style. Times won't be published during the week, only standings. When I update the board at the end of each day, those who have submitted an entry that day will be told how far they are behind the commander in front, and how far they are ahead of the commander behind.

Actual times will be revealed for the last day of the race.

What's the prize?

The sight of your name at the top of the leaderboard, and the opportunity to say you won a Buckyball Race.
Oh, and depending upon how Ceska's feeling, possibly the chance to get your very own mention on Radio Sidewinder

What's to stop me cheating?

Nothing. Like the Buckyball Runs, we operate on an honour basis here. There's nothing I can do to stop you from faking screenshots or using exploits. But where's the benefit in that? It wouldn't get you anything, except a lasting feeling of shame. This is all about doing the race for the fun of it.

How come you've entered your own race? Isn't that cheating?

My entry was set before the race started, to give an idea of times. And it certainly shouldn't be the fastest run, given that it was set in a Cobra still fully equipped with weapons, shields, etc...

I had to dock and get fuel. Does that count against my time?
I got interdicted. Does that count against my time?

Time waits for no-one, and neither does the race clock. It's all part of the race.

OK, so it's only the one entry, but it's a start, so I can't complain . As promised, Cmdr furrycat's Imperial Courier INV White Whiskers did indeed make a successful attempt. The practice runs in beta seem to have paid off, as furrycat's first attempt duly blew past my Cobra to take top spot on the leaderboard. Well done furrycat!

Edit: Well, that didn't go so well. First I bounced off the wall trying to come out of Mikulin Hub and then at the end, literally 1 or 2 seconds before arriving back at Gaiman Dock, I was interdicted by a bloody eagle.

what?! a courier beeting a cobra in speed? did you transfer shieldmj to kinetic energy, furrycats? grats :-)

... i would so much love to race tonight, but i have rare goods in my rack, which i need to give to a fellow commanders some time tomorrow. even worse those racks are in a bubble-specced multipurpose asp ... NEED FOR SPEED!

Edit: Well, that didn't go so well. First I bounced off the wall trying to come out of Mikulin Hub and then at the end, literally 1 or 2 seconds before arriving back at Gaiman Dock, I was interdicted by a bloody eagle.

I feel your pain... Relatively good first run, then interdicted 4Ls from Gaiman Dock. Should still be a decent enough time, and a couple of fun GIFs incoming soon...

arrived in gaiman dock in my the sweet little dbs "The Bee's Gee", after some final outfitting in ohm city (ohm city and borr city are the two li yong rui controlled hightech systems close by). now shower, the emperors favourite coffee, and a handrolled rusani old smokey cigarette, before i take off.